
Women’s ‘red flag’ app Tea is a privacy nightmare
Tanya Tianyi Chen
created: July 28, 2025, 8:22 p.m. | updated: July 29, 2025, 12:53 p.m.
An app designed to help women spot the “red flags” of men they date has incidentally put its users at risk.
404 Media reported that Tea was hacked by 4chan users last week, resulting in the selfies and driver’s licenses of its mostly women users being posted to 4chan.
The app surged in popularity to the top spot on Apple’s App Store last week.
Tea was storing its users’ sensitive information on Firebase, a Google-owned backend cloud storage and computing service.
A retaliatory app featuring women was created shortly thereafter, called Teaborn, but it was promptly taken down after reports of users posting revenge porn.
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